@AEG84 - Yay for extra ultrasound! Boo for oversized babies. I just got similar news at my checkup. Between her current size and my family history of enormous spawn, my doctor's warned me that she may end up recommending and I should begin considering an elective c-section.
Thanks for the offer, doc. I've considered it, and I'll be attempting to push this baby outta my ladybits (and, at least at first, I'll try to do it sans painkillers). It'll probably hurt like a b*&3^$h, but my vadge is pretty tough. We can reevaluate whether or not to slice me open if you can come up with a better medical reason than "Uh, your kid's gonna be a porker."
If it's any consolation, one of my sisters says bigger babies are easier to push out. Also, I don't know that I'd trust an OB who wanted to perform a c/s because he *thinks* the kid *might* be huge. Ultrasound can be wrong by 4 pounds and unless you or the kid is in distress, why not try? Admittedly, I'm terrified of the recovery a c section requires so if the jolly green giant needs to put his hands up there and pull this kid out, that's what we'll do.
@AEG84 - Yay for extra ultrasound! Boo for oversized babies. I just got similar news at my checkup. Between her current size and my family history of enormous spawn, my doctor's warned me that she may end up recommending and I should begin considering an elective c-section.
Thanks for the offer, doc. I've considered it, and I'll be attempting to push this baby outta my ladybits (and, at least at first, I'll try to do it sans painkillers). It'll probably hurt like a b*&3^$h, but my vadge is pretty tough. We can reevaluate whether or not to slice me open if you can come up with a better medical reason than "Uh, your kid's gonna be a porker."
If it's any consolation, one of my sisters says bigger babies are easier to push out. Also, I don't know that I'd trust an OB who wanted to perform a c/s because he *thinks* the kid *might* be huge. Ultrasound can be wrong by 4 pounds and unless you or the kid is in distress, why not try? Admittedly, I'm terrified of the recovery a c section requires so if the jolly green giant needs to put his hands up there and pull this kid out, that's what we'll do.
I agree that with everything I've read about weight prediction inaccuracies, I would move forward with trying to see if I could push too. Whatever you all decide, but don't be scared. Our bodies mostly know what to do and I have also heard that big babies seem to come out easier.
@AmadorRose Yes...Savannah, our dog, gets ridden like a horse. She just looks at us like "really guys? I didn't sign up for this...". She doesn't get on her when she's standing, just when she's laying down she straddles her. And sleeping like a rock, most nights! Last night she was coughing in her sleep and I was able to go in her room, put Vicks on her feet, cover them with socks, and leave and she never knew I was there.
I told DH that I never want to be pregnant on my birthday ever again. If I'm 2-4 weeks pregnant on my birthday and I don't know it, that's ok, but nothing more than that.
Totally going to be a little AW and post a photo of my birthdays over the years.
@AmadorRose , @emgee27 - Yup, yup, and yup. I do know everyone is different, but at the end of the day I've yet to have a family member need a c-section because baby was too big (and we're not a particularly large bunch of ladies). My mother claims her giant babies didn't hurt a bit, and she went without medication for all three of us. I'm open to whatever needs to happen and I'm not going to refuse medical intervention if it's warranted, but I'm not interested in putting myself or Maggie at extra risk just in case.
I get the sense though that this particular OB might be used to a slightly snootier clientele. Her office is definitely in the neighborhood where I'm assuming there are plenty of women who are too posh to push, and some of the pharmaceutical ads and brochures she's got lying around are definitely geared towards... well, suffice it to say that I'm not interested. It's not enough that I'd consider switching doctors at this point, but I may look for a different OB when #2 comes around.
@AmadorRose , @emgee27 - Yup, yup, and yup. I do know everyone is different, but at the end of the day I've yet to have a family member need a c-section because baby was too big (and we're not a particularly large bunch of ladies). My mother claims her giant babies didn't hurt a bit, and she went without medication for all three of us. I'm open to whatever needs to happen and I'm not going to refuse medical intervention if it's warranted, but I'm not interested in putting myself or Maggie at extra risk just in case.
I get the sense though that this particular OB might be used to a slightly snootier clientele. Her office is definitely in the neighborhood where I'm assuming there are plenty of women who are too posh to push, and some of the pharmaceutical ads and brochures she's got lying around are definitely geared towards... well, suffice it to say that I'm not interested. It's not enough that I'd consider switching doctors at this point, but I may look for a different OB when #2 comes around.
I don't understand the appeal of a c section over pushing - the scar is much smaller than in the past, but you're still going to have that scar for the rest of your life. Plus, you're not going to be super active after having your abdominal muscles split apart to reach the uterus, so you won't be active as quickly as if you had delivered vaginally. If something happens, by all means slice me open and get this girl out, but Mike and my doctors are the only people I plan on ever seeing my vagina so if it gets torn or stretches kinda funny, at least I can cover it up easily! Plus, I'm pretty sure MIL would mega-hover if I had a c/s and I'd get nasty real fast. If I push her out vaginally at least I'll be mobile enough to get away from her if she starts getting crazy!
@AmadorRose , @emgee27 - Yup, yup, and yup. I do know everyone is different, but at the end of the day I've yet to have a family member need a c-section because baby was too big (and we're not a particularly large bunch of ladies). My mother claims her giant babies didn't hurt a bit, and she went without medication for all three of us. I'm open to whatever needs to happen and I'm not going to refuse medical intervention if it's warranted, but I'm not interested in putting myself or Maggie at extra risk just in case.
I get the sense though that this particular OB might be used to a slightly snootier clientele. Her office is definitely in the neighborhood where I'm assuming there are plenty of women who are too posh to push, and some of the pharmaceutical ads and brochures she's got lying around are definitely geared towards... well, suffice it to say that I'm not interested. It's not enough that I'd consider switching doctors at this point, but I may look for a different OB when #2 comes around.
I don't understand the appeal of a c section over pushing - the scar is much smaller than in the past, but you're still going to have that scar for the rest of your life. Plus, you're not going to be super active after having your abdominal muscles split apart to reach the uterus, so you won't be active as quickly as if you had delivered vaginally. If something happens, by all means slice me open and get this girl out, but Mike and my doctors are the only people I plan on ever seeing my vagina so if it gets torn or stretches kinda funny, at least I can cover it up easily! Plus, I'm pretty sure MIL would mega-hover if I had a c/s and I'd get nasty real fast. If I push her out vaginally at least I'll be mobile enough to get away from her if she starts getting crazy!
I'd probably count being able to schedule childbirth as an advantage, as well as not having to do the whole labor thing. And I do like the thought of not getting torn and then stitched back up down below, because I can think of nothing more disturbing than needles in my hoohah... I just don't think any of those advantages are sufficient to make me choose it, all other things being equal.
I think certain parts of Lord of the Rings are always going to remind me of pregnancy now. My husband keeps quoting Sam and referring to my "heavy burden" and how he would like to "carry it for a while" so we could "share the load."
I think certain parts of Lord of the Rings are always going to remind me of pregnancy now. My husband keeps quoting Sam and referring to my "heavy burden" and how he would like to "carry it for a while" so we could "share the load."
I think I figured out why no one ever talks about how awful pregnancy can to women who've never been pregnant: they wouldn't believe it. I've done things in the last few weeks that I never, ever thought I'd do. No one who has never been pregnant would believe just how weird and uncomfortable things get.
@RoseShadow873@AmadorRose I have never read or seen anything LOTR. One year, one of my best friends have me a card with a LOTR character on it and I just found it the other day and was laughing because I still didn't know who it was on there and on the inside she had to leave a note saying what kind of card it was. I was too wrapped up in Harry Potter to ever give it a chance.
@RoseShadow873@AmadorRose I have never read or seen anything LOTR. One year, one of my best friends have me a card with a LOTR character on it and I just found it the other day and was laughing because I still didn't know who it was on there and on the inside she had to leave a note saying what kind of card it was. I was too wrapped up in Harry Potter to ever give it a chance.
I'm both insulted and super thankful that my dad just told me that he's going to give DH and I $2k so that we can move out before LO arrives. Insulted because part of me is taking it as "in exchange for money, GTFO." The other part of me just wants to move already, and that gives us the opportunity.
I think certain parts of Lord of the Rings are always going to remind me of pregnancy now. My husband keeps quoting Sam and referring to my "heavy burden" and how he would like to "carry it for a while" so we could "share the load."
@RoseShadow873@AmadorRose I have never read or seen anything LOTR. One year, one of my best friends have me a card with a LOTR character on it and I just found it the other day and was laughing because I still didn't know who it was on there and on the inside she had to leave a note saying what kind of card it was. I was too wrapped up in Harry Potter to ever give it a chance.
I did Harry Potter role play for YEARS online... It was just a bunch of Harry Potter nerds taking turns writing their actions as if they were in that universe. My character was in Ravenclaw. This was set in the time period before Harry went to Hogwarts but after his parents had graduated. It was a great outlet for me to do some creative writing.
I love HP and LOTR but I think LOTR is better than HP at least for movies, because I think the HP movies other than the first two are pretty bad. I was super disappointed with the HP movies, especially the last one. I just finished re-reading LOTR last night. It's a bit weird to compare the HP and LOTR books; they're so different.
In preparation for this kid I guess I need to clear out my medicine cabinet. My Neosporin expired in 2010 and that's probably not the oldest thing in there.
I really really really despise the fact that apartment managements feel they can just enter your place for an inspection whenever something comes up. I came home to a letter on my door saying they will be entering our apartment with the bank inspectors to install a radon test and we don't need to be there. It just makes me so uncomfortable !
Or or the fact that our water has been shut off one day a week for the last 4 weeks due to "repairs". I just can't wait to move out of this place!
She does some crazy stuff in there. It drives me crazy sometimes!! @thaisac1
Is your placenta anterior or posterior? Mine is posterior so baby is facing my back, so what I do feel/ see through my abdominal wall is actually his butt or head (I dont know) and back pushing against it while he rolls over and adjusts positions.
I'm catching up on TB today sorry for the late reply. My placenta is posterior and to the left a bit. She's transverse right now so she is kicking out my sides and stretching a lot.
Also all the above about c section talk brings me to my friends current situation ... She went into labor this morning at 37 weeks and her baby was breech so her dr was able to flip the baby while in utero using traction bevause she's 10000% against a c section.... Well about an hr later baby flipped breech again and now she's going in for a c section any minute and she's so upset it almost making me angry
I just wanna tell her who cares as long as baby is ok !! Life goes on ! Etc but I don't think now is the time.
Personally I want to have a vaginal birth too but in the end I only care that she comes out healthy and ok.
I hate when I put on a Pre-Pg shirt in the morning and I think, "hell yea, I can still pull this off"...Then I get to work and I'm like "WhyTF did I wear this shirt?"....It's gonna be a long day.
She does some crazy stuff in there. It drives me crazy sometimes!! @thaisac1
Is your placenta anterior or posterior? Mine is posterior so baby is facing my back, so what I do feel/ see through my abdominal wall is actually his butt or head (I dont know) and back pushing against it while he rolls over and adjusts positions.
I'm catching up on TB today sorry for the late reply. My placenta is posterior and to the left a bit. She's transverse right now so she is kicking out my sides and stretching a lot.
Also all the above about c section talk brings me to my friends current situation ... She went into labor this morning at 37 weeks and her baby was breech so her dr was able to flip the baby while in utero using traction bevause she's 10000% against a c section.... Well about an hr later baby flipped breech again and now she's going in for a c section any minute and she's so upset it almost making me angry
I just wanna tell her who cares as long as baby is ok !! Life goes on ! Etc but I don't think now is the time.
Personally I want to have a vaginal birth too but in the end I only care that she comes out healthy and ok.
My boy is transverse too. This morning when I woke up he was right of the front of my uterus so we could literally hold him with our hands. Was so cool!
I hate when I put on a Pre-Pg shirt in the morning and I think, "hell yea, I can still pull this off"...Then I get to work and I'm like "WhyTF did I wear this shirt?"....It's gonna be a long day.
This was my life on Tuesday... Guess who's belly was hanging out? Also I can officially saying I'm part of the fuzzy belly club. Thanks Italian genetics! I will still gladly accept this over a moustache though
I hate when I put on a Pre-Pg shirt in the morning and I think, "hell yea, I can still pull this off"...Then I get to work and I'm like "WhyTF did I wear this shirt?"....It's gonna be a long day.
Believe me or not, I still wear pre-pregnancy dresses to work every day. Even I am perplexed about this factoid, considering I am a humpty-dumpty nowadays...
@thaisac1 I have worn pre-pregnancy dresses all week, because they are all maxi style and WAY more comfortable than wearing pants. It's funny because I always asked DH if I looked pregnant while wearing them before I was, but now, I rock the frock with the bump!
@thaisac1 I have worn pre-pregnancy dresses all week, because they are all maxi style and WAY more comfortable than wearing pants. It's funny because I always asked DH if I looked pregnant while wearing them before I was, but now, I rock the frock with the bump!
I don't wear maxi dresses to work but nearly all of my dresses are made of some fairly stretchy fabric, so they have stretched with my bump. Lucky me.
@emgee27 Don't be too jealous! It doesn't always produce! Summer 2014 we had a ridiculous amount, like to the point that we had to go out at least once a day to collect them so we wouldn't have rotting mangos on the ground, we had mango in our dinners 3-4x a week, and we chopped up and froze so many we were still having mango in our smoothies until almost spring 2015! This past summer? I think I could count the number of edible mangos we collected on one hand. I'm really hoping this summer we have a good season, because DD1 loves them, and I'd also love to freeze some to be able to make DD2 fresh organic home grown mango puree!
Most of my clothes are not maternity. My work jeans are. I think I'll need to figure out new work jeans because these ones keep sliding down my hips. No one needs to be seeing my bright panties while I'm counting parts in the warehouse.
So my mom just bought a huge bag of baby clothes for my LO... I hate the color yellow. Everyone in my life knows this. I legit always call it sunshine vomit.
So my mom just bought a huge bag of baby clothes for my LO... I hate the color yellow. Everyone in my life knows this. I legit always call it sunshine vomit.
Oh man, nooooooo. I don't necessarily dislike yellow but I feel the same way about red clothes. So I feel your struggle
I really really really despise the fact that apartment managements feel they can just enter your place for an inspection whenever something comes up. I came home to a letter on my door saying they will be entering our apartment with the bank inspectors to install a radon test and we don't need to be there. It just makes me so uncomfortable !
Or or the fact that our water has been shut off one day a week for the last 4 weeks due to "repairs". I just can't wait to move out of this place!
Sounds like where I used to live in Hawaii. What dicks!
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Totally going to be a little AW and post a photo of my birthdays over the years.
I get the sense though that this particular OB might be used to a slightly snootier clientele. Her office is definitely in the neighborhood where I'm assuming there are plenty of women who are too posh to push, and some of the pharmaceutical ads and brochures she's got lying around are definitely geared towards... well, suffice it to say that I'm not interested. It's not enough that I'd consider switching doctors at this point, but I may look for a different OB when #2 comes around.
Plus, I'm pretty sure MIL would mega-hover if I had a c/s and I'd get nasty real fast. If I push her out vaginally at least I'll be mobile enough to get away from her if she starts getting crazy!
@fbanke42 is today your birthday?!?
@fbanke42 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!
one of my best friends have me a card with a LOTR character on it and I just found it the other day and was laughing because I still didn't know who it was on there and on the inside she had to leave a note saying what kind of card it was. I was too wrapped up in Harry Potter to ever give it a chance.
Or or the fact that our water has been shut off one day a week for the last 4 weeks due to "repairs". I just can't wait to move out of this place!
Also all the above about c section talk brings me to my friends current situation ...
She went into labor this morning at 37 weeks and her baby was breech so her dr was able to flip the baby while in utero using traction bevause she's 10000% against a c section.... Well about an hr later baby flipped breech again and now she's going in for a c section any minute and she's so upset it almost making me angry
I just wanna tell her who cares as long as baby is ok !! Life goes on ! Etc but I don't think now is the time.
Personally I want to have a vaginal birth too but in the end I only care that she comes out healthy and ok.